President Roosevelt.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
President Roosevelt, accompanied bv the Governor of Massachusetts and other gentlemen, started in a four-horse landau, to drive front Pittfield to Lennox.
After going two miles the driver of the landau tried to cross an electric trolly line to get on the shady aide of the road, not noticing a trolly car which was approaching at the rate of forty miles an hour. The lady passengers in the car were urging the driver to go at full .speed in order to overtake the President’s party. Craig, one of President Roosevelt’s bodyguard, stood up and signalled to the trolly man, who frantically pealed his bell and applied the brakes.
The two front horses cleared the line, but the car crashed into the right-hand wheeler, throwing it against the landau and tilting the vehicle at an angle of 45 degrees. Craig was thrown under the wheels of the car and frightfully mangled, being killed instantly. The driver of the landau had his skull fractured, and has since died.
The Governor of Massachusetts and Mr Corteliyon, President Roosevelt’s private secretary, caught hold of the President, who was not thrown out, but was struck on the face by the door, raising a lump as big as a fist.
Some of the other passengers were hurt, but not very seriously. President Roosevelt showed admirable coolness, though he was 4 affected at the death of Craig, whom he greatly esteemed. The President instantly ordered, reassuring telegrams to be sent tO’*'' White House, and also toNew York to avert a panic on Wall street. President Roosevelt admitted privately, “I just missed death.” He angrily asked the motor-man, “Why did you drive so fast ?” and received the reply, “I had the right of way. You ought to have looked out.” The driver and conductor of the car have been arrested on a charge of manslaughter. President Roosevelt’s driver was ordered to go fast. The press complains of the lamentable absence of precautions to ensure the safety of the President while
touring. President Roosevelt continued ms journey within an hour, and addressed the people at Lennox and Stockbridge, though he was evidently suffering, ■ _
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Manawatu Herald, 6 September 1902, Page 2
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360President Roosevelt. Manawatu Herald, 6 September 1902, Page 2
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